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The Arizona State Parliament has approved a bipartisan $ 18 billion spending plan to invest heavily in public schools, build new highways and repay long-term debtdid.
House and Senate lawmakers worked overnight to approve the budget just before sunrise, ending a month-long impasse. Only a handful of opponents from each party voted against the bill package, and RepublicanGovernor Doug Ducywas expected to approve it.
"This is what our state, where voters are almost evenly divided by party affiliation, has long sought to cooperate with us," said the top Democratic Party of the House of Representatives. Member Rabine's Reginald Boulding said.
Impossible bipartisanism has been made possible by an unprecedented surplus of over $ 5 billion, enabling a wide range of new spending and savings.
This includes $ 544 million for border security, about half for walls, and 10 for highway construction, including the widening of Interstate Highway 10 north of Casa Grande. Includes $ 100 million. State employees raise their salaries, many of them for the first time in 10 years. Hundreds of millions of people are reserved for water infrastructure as the state faces a prolonged drought.
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Republican Governor Doug Duchy signs a $ 18 billion budget approved by lawmakers on June 23. It's a schedule.
The budget also has a $ 1.1 billion deposit in the pension fund for public security and correction officers to pay off the state's unfunded debt for future severance benefits. And it will invest an additional $ 425 million in rainy day funding to help the state survive a potential recession.
We will also abolish the state leveling tax, which is a property tax for education, and backfill $ 330 million from general revenue sources.
The budget package has been passed with overwhelming support, which is very rare in modern times.
Ducy was also a major contributor to the large federal government'sCOVID-19 bailout, but his policy of reducing limited spending and regulation was in the black. He welcomed the transaction, stating that it could be a credit for the company.
"As a result, the economy is booming with record profits," Ducey said in a statement. "With this budget, we are making good use of those dollars and investing in priorities that Republicans and Democrats can agree on as well."
Republican leaders rely on Democrats. Without having to do it for months, I had a hard time developing a spending plan that could win unanimous support at a Republican rally. The small majority of both members meant that if Democrats united in opposition, opposition from a single Republican would be sufficient to sink the budget.
Ironically, when Republican leaders opposed the first smaller spending proposal, it was the most conservative members of Congress who forced their hands. After losing support on the right, Speaker of the House Russell Bowers and Speaker of the Senate Karen Fan had to look elsewhere and found them across the aisle.
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Republican leaders. "I decided to open up an easy path, with the least resistance, giving up and just using it," he said.
"The budget is not healthy and does not reflect my conservative values," Ugentirita said.
When all the compromises are made, no one loves the budget, said Rick Gray, Senate Majority Leader of R-Sun City.
"All budgets are bad," Gray said. "But for me, it's encouraging that we actually got together."
The plan includes a small number of targeted tax cuts on agricultural and private machinery. However, it does not include major tax cuts. Republicans cut their income tax by $ 1.7 billion last year.
Republican and Democratic leaders have agreed to add $ 526 million in new ongoing funding to schools from kindergarten to high school, a significant increase from the Republican's original proposal. did. Their agreement will add $ 80 million in additional funding for Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, and will increase in line with the additional funding already allocated to the University of Arizona.
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Medium Phoenix Democratic Senator Sean Bowie has joined the Medium Republican Senator. Paul Boyer worked to increase funding for schools, noting that the plan included funding over $ 1 billion in new schools, more than half of which is underway. Both will leave the legislature from this year onwards.
"Now this budget isn't perfect. I wanted to include the bill I really care about in my budget. It's a tax cut for low-income working families," Bowie said. rice field. "I was told that the choice was a kindergarten-to-high school billing or more investment, and I chose a kindergarten-to-high school public school."
He said. I quoted Boyers' Leadership, Your Stubbornness, Your Perseverance about reaching the deal.
Boyer, who started as a senator and has been a member for 10 years, said this was the first bipartisan budget in at least 15 years.
Congressmen also agreed to $ 4 million each for official technical changes to distribute money to schools and for school testing and 2022 election costs. The tax credit expansion proposed to subsidize private school tuition has been removed from the must-see budget and probably destined for it.
The bipartisan has expanded to the opposite — a small number of conservative Republicans and Liberal Democrats have voted against budget transactions.
Senator Martin Quezada,Glendale Democratsoppose plans to spend $ 335 million on the southern border wall and prevent people from crossing Said it was useless.
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"This is really a soap box I'm just riding and blaming immigrants to create a political point. "
But for Democrats, this may have been the last chance that a foreseeable future would impact the state's budget. Republicans are widely expected to expand their majority in the 2022 elections, thanks to the new district boundaries that appear to support the GOP.
The Legislature will return Thursday afternoon to adopt a bill that directs how to spend the new water bill and the rest of the bill.